OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37663

palmetto

Meanings (ES + gloss)
margallón • palmito
Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.
[O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has e…
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